01-07-2026, 08:45 PM
Hi all,
I'm very sorry for my utter lack of knowledge of all things coding, but I need some help. I recently made a password for my Notes app on my iPhone and have since forgotten the password. There is no way for me to change or recover it per Apple, I can only change the password for future locked Notes. My current locked Notes have a lot of important information in them that I need to get access to, so I have been looking into how I can brute force my way into getting access.
The things I know about the password I set:
It is only numbers
I strongly believe it is 6 numbers long (could be 4 or 5, but this is much less likely)
It does not start with a 00, 1, 4, or 7
It likely starts with 3, 6, or 9 (but I am less sure about this)
I believe that if there are any repeated numbers, then there should only be at most 2 numbers that were repeated.
I hope this is somewhat helpful. I would love to get any help for how to go about recovering this passcode so I don't have to try like 100,000 different codes. I unfortunately don't know a lick about coding or the terms used in coding, so hopefully someone can explain a solution in the most layman's terms possible. Hopefully this post is allowed here. Happy to provide any other information if needed (this is in fact my iPhone, this advice will no be used for any nefarious/illegal activity).
Thank you very much in advance.
I'm very sorry for my utter lack of knowledge of all things coding, but I need some help. I recently made a password for my Notes app on my iPhone and have since forgotten the password. There is no way for me to change or recover it per Apple, I can only change the password for future locked Notes. My current locked Notes have a lot of important information in them that I need to get access to, so I have been looking into how I can brute force my way into getting access.
The things I know about the password I set:
It is only numbers
I strongly believe it is 6 numbers long (could be 4 or 5, but this is much less likely)
It does not start with a 00, 1, 4, or 7
It likely starts with 3, 6, or 9 (but I am less sure about this)
I believe that if there are any repeated numbers, then there should only be at most 2 numbers that were repeated.
I hope this is somewhat helpful. I would love to get any help for how to go about recovering this passcode so I don't have to try like 100,000 different codes. I unfortunately don't know a lick about coding or the terms used in coding, so hopefully someone can explain a solution in the most layman's terms possible. Hopefully this post is allowed here. Happy to provide any other information if needed (this is in fact my iPhone, this advice will no be used for any nefarious/illegal activity).
Thank you very much in advance.
